Microsoft's Peter Moore participated in a video interview recently in which he revealed that Microsoft may soon discontinue production of backwards compatibility updates for the Xbox 360. Here's a quote directly from Moore:

"Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that. It's a very complicated thing... very complex work. I'm just stunned that we have hundreds of games that are backwards compatible. More are coming, but at some point, you just go, there's enough, let's move on, or people aren't as worried about a game being backwards compatible - and I like to think we've upheld our end of the bargain in making at least two or maybe three hundred games backwards compatible."

So while there is no definite target date at this time, it seems strange that Microsoft would drop backwards compatibility so soon after the console's launch, with so many titles left un-emulated. Do you truly believe Moore's claim that Microsoft has 'under promised and over delivered' with regards to backwards compatibility? Feel free to comment below.

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BS, people are concerned with the backward compatibility, some sold their old xb cause the 360 was gonna be backward compatible...and some sold their xb just to afford the heavily-priced 360.

its just that they cant play it and arent complaining too much cause they figure it'll eventually come out....

I was pretty disappointed in BC when I had a 360, and it really annoyed me--there were a few Xbox 1 games I really wanted to play, but I didn't want to shell out for a second gaming system. Thus, I got to deal with slowdowns (Ninja Gaiden = nearly unplayable), weird glitches (most of the other games), and things that just didn't work (for some reason, some of the archery moves in Fable just didn't do anything, aside from occasionally crashing the game).

"Under-promised and over-delivered" my ass. Yeah, Peter, people were really begging to be able to play "Barbie's Horse Adventure" on their 360s. IMO they UNDER-delivered. I know software emulations are a pain to do, but geez, you'd think the world's leading software company could come up with something to make it easier for everybody.

Oh, well. It's not the end of the world, or anything. I just get irritated with two-faced corporate weasels, no matter what industry they work in.

That's BS, honestly. They should've just incorporated the original Xbox into it so they would've have had to do all the emulation junk. Frankly now it just looks like that was another spec to put on the 360's resume and now that they're out there they're done using it. Why can't they at least add all the LIVE compatible games? You'd think those would be a priority.

The only original Xbox game I'm dying to get is Panzer Dragoon Orta, but there's no way I'm spending tons of cash on a gigantic box that only plays Panzer Dragoon. They need to keep working on this, or I'll be very upset.

Wow, taking a page out of sony's book on using enormous amounts of bullshit to convince people their move is the right and popular one. I've been holding out on getting a 360 and this isn't helping me to want one either.

Microsoft calms Xbox games fears
Microsoft has reassured players that it will continue to make old Xbox games playable on its new Xbox 360 console.
A entry on one of the company's blogs sought to clarify comments made by Xbox chief Peter Moore during an interview.

Game news sites picked up on remarks that suggested Microsoft was ending a commitment to make all old Xbox games work on the new version of the console.

In a blog entry, Microsoft said work on backwards compatibility was ongoing and another update was due very soon.

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The controversial comments were made by Mr Moore during an interview recorded at the E3 show that was recently released by UK games news site Kikizo.

At one point in the interview Mr Moore said: "Nobody is concerned anymore about backwards compatibility. We under promised and over delivered on that."

He continued: "More are coming, but at some point, you just go, there's enough, let's move on, or people aren't as worried about a game being backwards compatible."

Many Xbox 360 watchers took this to mean Microsoft was reneging on earlier commitments to make all Xbox games playable on the 360 console.

Widespread speculation and criticism on Xbox 360 fan sites led the software giant to issue some clarification on the Gamerscore blog that is written by Microsoft's games global marketing staff.

The entry on the blog said an update was due soon that would add another dozen titles to the roster of those that can already be played on the Xbox 360.

More than 200 Xbox games can be played on the next-generation console.

"But rest assured, we're not done yet," it added.

The blog entry said too many people cared about backwards compatibility to halt work on the development programme to move old games to the new console.

No it's not. Remeber when they gave us a smaller controller when we bitched about the gigantic one? And how the 360 pad replaces the obnoxious black and white buttons with convenient shouder buttons? Microsoft may not understand games as intimately as Nintendo does or Sega used to, but they do listen to the gamers.